Indicator attachment for umbrellas, parasols, canes, and the like.



PATENTED JULY 11, 1908.

C. F. KELLOM. INDICATOR ATTACHMENT FOR UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS, GANES,

AND THE LIKE APPLICATION FILED AUG.17, 1907.

naw for Wit" woes UNITED STATES PATENT onnron CHARLES F. KELLOM, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

INDICATOR ATTACHMENT FOR UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS, CANES, AND THE LIKE.

Application filed August 17, 1907.

I following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanylng drawings.

My inventlon relates to a device especially adapted for use in connection with handles of portable articles, such as umbrellas, parasols, canes and the like, and consists of an attachment serving as a container for means for ascertaining the name, address or other information respecting the owner of the article.

It consists essentially of a head or face plate to which aresecured retaining members, which are preferably resilient and can be readily inserted or withdrawn and held in a recess or socket in the handle of the portable article, thereby allowing a slip of paper or other material containing the desired information as the name, address or the like of the owner to be inserted and held within the handle, the device being also readily removable when desired, and the resiliency of the retaining members serving also to hold the device in assembled osition.

For the purpose of illustrating my invention, I have shown one form of a device which embodies best the principle of my invention, although it is obvious that the principal instrumentalities of which my invention consists can be variously arranged and organized.

The drawings show one embodiment which I have found in practice to give satisfactory results, although it is to be understood that my invention is not limited to the specific arrangement and organization of these instrumentalities, as herein shown.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a handle of an umbrella or the like having my novel attachment applied thereto. Fig. 2 represents a section through the handle and attachment showing the attachment slightly withdrawn. Fig. 3 represents a perspective view of my novel attachment in detached position.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings :'A designates the handle of an umbrella or the like having a recess, chamber or socket B for receiving Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. July 14, 1908o Serial No. 389,085.

my novel attachment C, the latter comprising a head or face plate D, which is provided on its back with an eye member (1, which freely and pivotally receives the cross-bar e, which oins the front ends of the arms E, E, the rear ends of the latter having juxta osed rings or terminals F, F, which preferab y extend or are deflected towards each other. The arms E, E are slightly bowed or sprung outwardly forming a resilient frame so that when the attachment 0 is inserted in its recess B, it is held therein by frictional contact, although it will be evident that other fastening means may be employed, if desired.

As the eye member cl forms a ivotal connection for the frame, the face late D may be readily seated on the end of the handle around the recess or chamber B and turn to conform to any inequality of said end so as to rest flat thereon, while possessing the advantage of being easily worked in zig-zag direc tion for the convenient and easy removal of the frame, as will be hereinafter more fully explained. I

It is obvious that face plate D may be of metal, celluloid, papier-mach or other material, while the members E, F with the crossbar 6 and rings or terminals F, F, are composed of a continuous piece of metallic or other wire.

It is readily seen that the spring arms and rings can be formed by bending at about the center of a piece of wire a suitable length e giving sufficient outward bend to the parallel portions to form arms E, E, and then forming the inwardly extending rings or deflected terminals F, the wire being preferably bent so that the rings F preferably lie one within or aside of the other and they act as closures for the inner end of the container or frame formed by said arms E.

It will be noticed that the rings F of the resilient frame, which is of light structure, are

in planes approximately arallel so that the front ring thereof may e supported, in a measure, by the rear one, and thus it is better enabled to endure the strain to which it is subjected, while drawing out the slip, it being evident that the rings brace each other and furthermore provide means that if the front ring is broken, the rear ring acts as an abutment for said slip, and thus render the device ca able of continued service.

It is to be understood that the plate D may have a plane, curved or any other surface that will be consistent with the face of the substantially as indicated in Fig. 2, and the''" whole pushed into the recess B of the handle. It is not necessary to withdraw the device 0 entirely from the bore to get access to its contents, for a slight withdrawal to about the position indicated in Fig. 2 is sufiicient to alow the paper to be grasped, it being evident that the rings F serve as an abutment to ush said slip Gin front of them as the device is drawn out from the chamber B. As the face plate and arms E are pivotally connected, said late may be readily worked so as to be priec off or disengaged from the outer end of the socket by a finger nail or a suitable implement, the effect of which is evident.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An attachment of the character stated consisting of a resilient frame composed of longitudinally extending arms, a cross-bar joining the front ends of said arms, and abutments on the inner ends thereof, said abutments being inturned from said arms towards each other and lying in planes approximately parallel, and a face plate on said cross-bar,

said arms, cross-bar and abutments being composed of a continuous piece of wire.

2. An attachment of the character stated consisting of a resilient frame composed of longitudinally extending arms, a cross-bar joining the front ends of said arms, and abutments on the rear ends thereof, said abutments being inturned from said arms towards each other, and a face plate on the front of said arms at a right angle to the longitudinal direction of the latter, said arms, cross-bar and abutments being composed of a continuous piece of wire.

3. An attachment of the character stated consisting of a resilient frame composed of longitudinally extending arms, a cross-bar joining the front ends of said arms, and abutments on the rear ends thereof, said abutments being inturned from said arms towards each other, and a face late on the front of said arms at a right ang e to the longitudinal direction of the latter, said face late having an eye member which is pivota ly mounted on said cross-bar, and said arms, cross-bar and abutments being composed of a continuous piece of wire.

CHARLES F. KELLOM.

Witnesses C. D. MoVAY, E. C. GEYER. 

